Yep…. swell dropped….. Nw 3ft @ 11 sec’s with Light SE winds….. good news… sunshine today….. get the longboard out, and hit that well known spot south of us…… get some refreshments…. make a day of it…… I am going in a few minutes……… Friday looking even smaller….. SW2 @ 12 sec’s with more sun and light SE winds…… Sat. picks up to Sw7ft with light S winds, probably am sun…. then the afternoon will turn…. S winds picking up to 30+mph…. Sunday swell picks up to W 11ft with S winds 25+mph…. Monday about the same, but the wind drops off…..

Got out early this morning with the SB……. waist high, hard to find a peak, but still fun….. had about 12 other damn nice people out in the water with us as the morning went on….. W4-5ft @ 10 sec’s, damn minus low tide at 11a, light SE winds turning SW later. Thursday, sunshine, W3ft @ 13 sec’s with light E winds, and the damn low tide at noon…. Friday SW 4ft with E winds about 15mph and sunshine…. Sat. picks up, SW9ft with S winds 15+…. and my baby sister comes for a visit….. thankfully, she and Mike drink…….. Sunday SW 11ft with SW winds 20+mph……

Damn minus low tide at 10a this morning…. shots taken around 8a…. 2 more hours of tide going out…… swell is very small….. NW 4-5ft @ 9sec’s, looks a bit junky…. light SW winds this morning…. think I will wait until after 11a then go take a look…. supposed to rain a bit later…..
Wed. NW 4 @ 12sec’s with some rain and light SE winds. Low tide at 11a, high at 6p….. Thursday W3ft with sunshine, low tide at noon Friday W5ft with light SE winds, low tide around noon….. and sunshine Saturday, SW8ft with am light S winds, high tide at 7a, low tide at 2p, possible light rain and winds picking up in the afternoon out of the south at 20-25 mph……

Looks much cleaner this morning, but the damn minus low tide at 9a……. probably won’t be any good until this afternoon…… NW 5-7ft @ 9sec’s with light N/NW winds. Tuesday NW 5 @ 9sec’s with light S winds….. Wed. NW 4ft with light S winds… Thursday W3ft with light NE winds Friday SW 5ft with light SE winds…. Keep the longboard out!!! some of us will have some fun…… maybe not today…(damn work)….but the rest of the week……

From our dear friend in N. Ireland, Spanky Patterson:
Yea, great pic there buckwheat … Cheers … Lets consider this some. …You get a parade of world class sticks, and you show them tastlelessly ‘displayed’ for us all in board bags, Mekene-wrapeed in 40 year old smelly Blurtwatched blankets, hangin out the bag of your decrepid ‘surf wagon’ …. Lets guess… Is there a plain white one in there? A blue one? Maybe a striped one or an epoxy? ….
Or maybe one with a big “Buckwheat Don’t Do Pop Outs Anymore, ner does he have a Fecken Clue how to Maximise his Online Advertising Potential by Hiding his Noo Sticks inside a Stink Assed Wagon that hasn’t Seen the Light of So Much As a Baby Whipe For Going Twenny Years Now … ” sign running along the entire length of it ….
In fact the thought of these nice new boards yellowing up the I5 from San Diego in that putrid environment already knocks a few bucks offem id say … Don’t know about the rest of you, but fartsacked boards are every bit as bad as sunburnt yellowed ones. Tired. Dejected. De-energised. Choked during a 30 hour non-stop coffee and Taco Bell infused journey that acts like a malign glass job. These sucker probly don’t even flaot anymore ….
Therefore I’ll give you 300 for the Linden ‘Creamy-sickle’ just cause it sounds rude…
In fact make that 200 …

Now then … Did I tell y’all id had a bad weekend?
mark patterson, presenter
Now, that being “shared”, I thought I would add my “roady notes” from the trip, and I did add 3 pictures of a few of the boards I picked up, before they became too soiled in the back of the van….. And No, Spanky Patterson, I did not surf this weekend, so I too am a bit on the “frazzeled side”. So…… last week, did the roady with my son, who is “in between jobs.. decided the Beaverton PD was not the place he would be happy for 20 years”…. turned out to be a good time! Surf was pretty crappy all the way down, but had some really good meetings with some of our business partners. Started Out Monday morning, meeting Mark and Danni (his girlfriend) for breakfast at a really good little chinese rest. in San Fran, a few blocks east of 800 block Larkin St…… then, got charged $25 for an hour and a half of parking at a lot…… what a rip…breakfast was cheaper….. Thankfully , she is moving up next month!! From there, we headed south….. hot…. fuk’n hot…. stopped in Pismo for lunch and to check the surf…. surf was about 2 ft, air temp on the beach 97……… lousy mexican rest….. won’t do that one again! From there, we headed to Huntington Beach…… and LA traffic….. had dinner at a great sushi rest. .. Gesshin, 16492 Beach Blvd…… fantastic food and really good people that own the place!!!! Started out the next morning driving over to the pier….. surf was a steady 2 ft….. had breakfast at the Ihop…. then a couple hour meeting with Bob Bolen “the Greek”…. picked up a couple of new shorty’s….. and some new ideas……. from there, off to meet one of our new suppliers… Birdwell Britches…. still made the same way, the same machines, even the same computers from the old days….. classic great shorts!!! Then to Oceanside to a meeting with Harry from Boz….. discussed the new rubber coming out, and some new styles in the works…. met with Mark from Stay Covered then a long meeting with Gary Linden, after Surfline finished filming him doing what he does best…… Got a couple hours in Carlsbad with some mediocre surf… but, no booties or gloves…… then off to dinner at Fidel’s…. oh…. it’s not Fidels anymore…. just “Norte”….. with the loss of the name, also went the loss of great food and service….thank god we had a bottle of vodka back at the Ocean Palms, and sat out with Sam and Sharon, drank and smoked a nice cigar……. Was supposed to meet Gary for a morning surf….. just plain crap…… so, we went to breakfast at a great place on the corner of 101 and Carlsbad Blvd.. Daily News Cafe…. great food and really great people….. well worth the stop! Then up to see Shea Weber at the Dewey Weber shop in San Clemente for a lengthy meeting……. bought some boards and other stuff…… from there off to San Marcos to meet with the Cobian people….. ordered some sandals, not made in China, but Mexico…… by that time it was late lunch time…. headed to a new Rest. on the corner of 5th and Laurel in San Diego…. an old friend who used to manage the La Valencia Hotel and owns a rest. in Rancho Bernardo, “French Market” just opened the “Hexagone”. His nephew, Ben (also from Paris) was managing, and we had a bit of a wait for his highness Patrick to show…. we have been friends since the 70′s, so the shit flipping began very quickly….. Food was out of this world!! Damn, hadn’t had really good french cooking in quite a while….. we were under dressed, but even Mark found the Escargot to be great…. get a chance….. go see Patrick or his nephew Ben (he surfs)…..Then to my parents, so my son could see his grandparents that he had not seen in about 20 years….. so, with cocktails and dinner it was a very good evening…. even Mike and Maura showed up……!!! Thursday, an early morning surf at Pipes…..nothing great, but felt good to get some waist high and a couple chest high waves….. then the loading process at Linden and Stay Covered…… done…. off to breakfast with Sharon and Cathe…. cousins in Oceanside…… that is a story in it self for later……. Mark wanted Sharon to give him Sam as a drinking partner…… Stopped at Weber for the final load, then off to the NW….. on Friday, hit snow over by Shasta……….. all in all a very busy week, but the meetings were really worth the time, and a chance to see family was really good…… and , glad to be back up here…..too bad at this point the surf has been , well so so……. surf report later….. if you actually read all this….. damn you are good!!!!

Junky………. and more junky….. NW 6-8ft @ 9sec’s with light NW winds…… minus low tide….damn…. but OK…. I have to work…. the week is looking like it will stay NW 4-6ft until Thursday when it drops to W3ft…. but then Sat. supposed to pick up out of the South…..
I will post more stuff later…. trying to get the new pics up of the new toys…….. a ton of interest in the Linden SB2 and SB3 models that I brought back…. aka the “bumble bee and the creamsicle” Seems like the old guys from the north all had to come in yesterday and play feely touchy with them…….. more on that later….

Congrats to Justin & Lisa Meyers…. (local surfers and get the daily reports)…. Good looking little kidlet….. and Justin claims he will be one of us Goofy foots!
Wyatt James Myers 8lbs 2oz 22in
Born April 24th, 2:13pm
Pretty sure he’s a goofy foot

-Justin + Lisa

mark mekenas mark@cannonbeachsurf.com www.cannonbeachsurf.com

Got back yesterday around 3p…. long ass drive!!! Thanks Cory for doing the daily reports! Great job, and good stuff to read! Surf is looking small and junky this morning…… not at all what I was hoping for…… overcast, but not that cold…. NW 3-4ft @ 9 secs with W/NW winds 15-20mph today. Supposed to pick up later to NW9ft with NW winds 25+ mph….. Sunday, NW 9, dropping to 7ft with NW winds 20+…. Monday ( by then I hope to be caught up) NW7ft with NW winds 15-20mph…. Tuesday NW6ft with N winds 15mph…. Wed., NW 5ft with N winds 20ft….. to quote SB…”going to be epic at IB!!”….. but then I really don’t trust what SB might say……… probably “epic at Sandyland!!”….
Brought back some damn nice Toys!!! Majority of the boards are Linden and CSS, our new rental boards…. (going to have a sale on the existing rentals next week)…. but, got a couple of damn nice Greeks (Bob Bolen is my son’s new best friend) 4 new Dewey Webers…. a bunch of custom boards from Linden, and some new toys…. also picked up our first batch of Birdwell Britches!!
Had a good road trip…. My son came along, and was good to spend time with him…. we hit weather from 97 on the beach in Pismo, to Snowing big time in Shasta yesterday….. surf south was small and junky, but I did manage a couple sessions, one in Carlsbad, then Thursday mornning at Pipes….. worst case….. I had some fun and did alot of paddling with no gloves or booties….. in fact, had to pull the neck part of the wetsuit back unzipped to cool off…… Had some great meetings with the Greek, Gary Linden, Shea Weber, Harry at Boz and Cobian…. along with others….and, we had some really good times with some family members down south….. Ate at some really good rest.’s…. I think I will do a post on the blog either later today or sunday morning with some stories……. save some reading time…..
Well, now back to work…. a ton of catching up to do…… I will be in the shop all day today and Sunday…..

Late report today. Swell looks pretty small and fun! No wind this morning and sunshine to go w/ it! Low tide early this morning so maybe when there’s a little water in there things will be looking good!! Mark is supposed to be back in today w/ a slew of new products! Heard there might be some new things from Boz Wetsuits and Birdwell Britches! Here’s how the weekend is looking:

Fri: N Wind 15-20kt NW5′@8sec
Sat: N Wind 15-20kt NW6′@9sec
Sun: N Wind 15 NW7′
Mon: N Wind 20-25kt NW8′

First a story. Went out last night with the lowest of hopes. Looked like crap with a total of zero in the water, zero in the parking lot and all the flags pitched out pointing somewhere near directly East (yes for the directionally impaired that is West wind). I think there may have been whitecaps just beyond the rocks on the north side. I’ve had some desperation sessions in the past but this one would for sure take the cookie. I thought “well I’ll go out and paddle around with Boo-Boo for some exercise”. Sure enough, once in the water it was crap and cold. Boo-Boo shouts over to me “I don’t remember it being this windy out here” thru the chop and howling wind. “That’s because we don’t go out in west wind!” said I with a face-full of white water. Then something formed that looked like it could be a ‘wave’ so I turned paddled for it and no that wasn’t a wave but the next one was. We shared about half a dozen real walled up wind waves over the next 45 minutes. What started out as no-waves quickly became some waves with decent drops! Good thing to remember for today; go with low expectations (and some extra foam) and you just might get a few!

The report: not as much wind this AM but still on the junk-tacular side of things. Small small at about 2′-4′ even though the report is calling for 8′@7sec. That interval seems about right. Take a longboard today and just wing it. Big-boss-man arrives tomorrow with new toys from Dewey Weber, Linden and the Greek (yup a couple more Shorty’s!). I would imagine in his tech-savyness, Mark will be posting pics on the site on sat or sun. Here’s the outlook for the weekend:

Thurs: NW Wind 15-20kt NW8′@7sec
Fri: NW Wind 5-10kt NW 5′@9sec
Sat: NW Wind 10-15kt NW5′
Sun: N Wind 15-20kt NW7′